SMS to email and email to SMS conversion is a popular concept which is available as for the current condition. This was first developed as an application which is built on top of the SMSC. Any text message or email is sent to the application and application handled the logic thereafter.
But as with the increasing trend of use of this service it has come to a level where this service is included in the SMSC itself rather than using it in a seperate application. Including the service in the SMSC will provide some advantages rather than having it as an application. The time spent on
To start connection between SMSC and applicaiton
The connection handling, authorizing procedures
Complex acknowledgement processes
can be eliminated by integrating the service inside the SMSC.
There are some basic things that should be taken care in the process of providing a successful service.
1. Basic format
There should be basic format where users using this service must adhear to in order to perform successful conversion between sms and electronic mail. There would be two seperate formats for MO flow and MT flow
E.g.
MO - ]
MT - ]
In the above examples MO represents the text to email conversion whereas in MT it represents the email to text conversion
Some features like Carbon Copy wont be supported in this formats since it would restrict the capacity of the messages
Subject, real name of the sender, optional control flags and message concatenations would be treated as optional features.
Unlike in usual emails, name should be entered manually by the user.
Subject of the email also should be inserted according to the format like in following examples
Optinal controller flags are also available to use the features like email signatures, predefined texts etc. The important thing to remember is all the optional controller flags are pre defined and would depend on the email service provider.
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